He was talking to about 40 members of the Canterbury Employers Chamber of Commerce annual meeting at the Court Theatre in Addington.

Mr Brownlee spoke about recent economic data showing growth in Canterbury and highlighted projects such as the Central Plains Water irrigation scheme that will be helped by a management team from troubled Solid Energy.

He talked about the initiatives of the Central City Redevelopment Unit that have been reported recently, and paid tribute to fellow Christchurch MP Nicky Wagner.

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As one Christchurch resident, I much prefer the ECan process now than when it was hijacked and hamstrung to absolute ineffectiveness by all the petty interests and agendas of the elected idiots who ran it before. It works now - a 100% improvement on 5 years ago.